Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Meetings and Power
As the former president of a Catholic elementary school board, and a member of this-and-that parish group, ad-hoc committee, and other community groups, I am pretty familiar with the inside of a meeting room. I am also pretty familiar with the idea of obsessively photographing obscure picture sets. That’s why I am taken in by…
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Best Gossip Website Ever
I recently found OH NO THEY DIDN’T!, a LiveJournal community site that has the flat-out best celebrity dirt on the internet. I recommend reading it through bloglines— less clicking, more pictures.
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Get Rider-to-Rider CTA Service Alerts on Your Phone, SMS, or Email
So my brother Kevin has a weblog called CTA Tattler. It has lots of readers and a pretty broad community of people interested in the daily live of the Chicago Transit Authority has formed there. The site get lots of action when there is a service interruption on the CTA– people log on after being frustrated after rough commutes…
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Killer Websites: The Online Lives of People Who End Up Being Murderers
So for a while now I’ve been collecting webpages of killers. I haven’t done it by any grand design, but whenever a news story comes out about a killer, very often you hear about (or can simply find on your own) the weblog or other info that the killer maintained before they turned to killing.…
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Get Your Knives Sharpened for the Holidays
Get Your Knives Sharpened for the Holidays, originally uploaded by juggernautco. As the summer family barbeque season is upon us, a friendly business near my house reminds us to get our knives sharpened.